"That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowedging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus." PHILEMON 1:6

If we do not acknowledge by knowing and saying the good things that are ours or in us in Christ Jesus, then we can not communicate or tell others about our faith effectively!



The only thing that restricts God is our unbelief.
The Lord said to Jeremiah,
        "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for Me?"  Jeremiah 32:27
God created the universe,
        and it didn't even affect His ability.

So we must not wonder if our situation is too hard for Him.
We have to renew our minds with the truth that God is not like us.

                   He can do anything.
                   He is an awesome God.

His power is so great that we can't even comprehend it.
When we choose to be a living advertisement for the Gospel and allow His love to shine through us for our brothers and sisters as well as for the lost, unbelievers will know the Jesus is alive in us.
Jude spoke of the early church meetings as being "feasts of charity" in Jude 1:12.
         Love abounded and so did the Gospel; there is a relationship between the two.
The body of Christ has spent large amounts of money and
        effort to reach the lost; but has very little love in
        their hearts for one another.

The first Church met in homes; but they had a tremendous
        impact on the world with the Gospel; because they had
        God's kind of love for Him and for each other.
Possessing true love for other believers
    isn't a top priority for most Christians today.

        Jesus said that this is the number-one thing
            that will show unbelievers that He's real and
               alive in us.
John 13:31-35
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."

       The distinguishing characteristic of a Christian, according to Jesus Himself, is our love for one another.
It's good to pray the prayer of Ephesians 1:15-23
and let the Holy Spirit reveal "Christ in you, the hope of glory",  Colossians 1:27.
Proverbs 23:7 says that
      whatever we think or believe in our heart is what we are.
In our spirit, we are right now as we will be throughout all eternity,

1 John 4:17.
 
   To the degree that we renew our mind to this truth
and believe it, we will actually experience God's fullness in this life.
God's Word is spirit and life, John 6:63,
         and as we abide in His Word,
                  we will begin to live more and more
                             from our spirit.
When we choose to believe what the
          Word of God says about us,
we will begin to know that in Christ Jesus
we have everything we will ever need or want.
We can't see or touch our spirit because it is spirit.
               Our spirit is the eternal, invisible part of us.
When we receive Jesus as our Lord,
           we are instantly changed in our spirits,
                       2 Corinthians 5:17,
but many of us aren't aware of the change
      that's taken place inside us,
so we continue to live by our physical senses
      and natural mind,
and we are oblivious to the new, born again part
      of us that has received the fullness of God.
Every believer has now received
the grace of God and His fulness.

Everything He is,
                   we now possess in our born-again spirits.
We are complete in Him, Colossians 2:9-10.
The Christian life isn't like an insurance policy
       that only pays off when we die and go to heaven;
              it pays off already in the here and now.
We must let the Holy Spirit
      give us a true revelation of
             His [Jesus'] deity and humanity daily.

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